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Lol gottem

This is the dumbest vehicle to ever live, everyone driving them is having a comically miserable time and you don't have to feel bad for laughing at them because they all deserve it.

I think this every time I fly on one. Now that it's in the news I'm thinking about it again.

Just wanted to share a bit of a bright point from last week, especially since I know The Workplace is a gauntlet of horrors designed to punish a lot of us neurodivergent people.

I've always got really great feedback on my communication skills. It's one part writing-as-a-hobby, one part devops drive for operational efficiency, and three parts AuDHD. In particular I'm really good at communicating technical topics in ways that engineers are receptive to and that non-technical people can understand. Since my entire workplace is remote, efficient and comprehensible written communication is really important.

About a month ago I got looped into an initiative to add explicit guidelines about how to communicate effectively while remote. I was just asked to give feedback on how the guidelines sounded — and I realized that they were all modeled after how I specifically communicate. I even asked my boss about it and she confirmed that it was "heavily inspired" by my communication style. The best parts: I didn't really have to do much work for this initiative, and I've been openly AuDHD at work for a year at this point, so they're quite aware.

They literally just want everyone to make their communication more autistic, and they're documenting that explicitly.

Unironic DEI win

Or is a white lie a lie you tell to white people so they don't destroy your life?

Do the other branches next

My rental unit has a gas fireplace that's controlled by remote. The remote fell about 3 feet and the LCD shattered. The remote is still functional, the screen is just cracked and bleeding. Replacements cost $100 and I'm on the hook for it if my landlord finds out. Haven't been able to find any cheaper compatible remotes either.

Any thoughts about how I might be able to track down a replacement LCD? Is it even worth it? The LCD seems pretty specialized.

alt title: "I guess this is why people with executive functioning skills journal"

Since I logged back in after being away from Hexbear for around a year and a half, I've been rereading my old comments. The last few years have been really tumultuous for me personally and it's been really helpful to have a bunch of little snapshots of who I am and where my head's been at since Hexbear opened.

I'm AuDHD and have a really diffuse sense of self a lot of the time, so it's been nice getting re-acquainted with my own personality (hopes, dreams, desires, insecurities, interests, values, and everything else) especially after some drawn-out periods of burnout, depression, and just being in survival mode. I like who I am. I'm a lot kinder than I remember.

That's been helpful for guiding some of my goals and and reminding myself of what I value for getting my life back to a happier place again, too.

Plus it's been good refreshing myself on my opsec lies so I can feel comfortable not deleting my old comments and preserve my thought record for the future

The comment-reread has been a great reminder about how I really like this place. I've had a ton of fantastic conversations with the comrades here, learned all sorts of things, helped people and received help myself. The argument-to-positive-convo ratio in my comment history is honestly way lower than I even thought it would be. Huge shout out to all of the comrades here (posters and mods alike) for making it the least-terrible place on the internet

Happiness, the debut track of Kim Jong Un's favorite kpop group from cringe Korea, originally featured scenes that included imagery of 9/11 and newspapers headlines highlighting the genocidal Amerikkkan empire's atomic bombing of Japan during WWII.

The song is a quintessential light summer bop. The group was pushed to debut early (without their youngest fifth member Yeri) in order to drown out bad press their company was facing at the time.

Excerpt:

I originally conceived of neuroqueer as a verb: neuroqueering as the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously. It was an extension of the way queer is used as a verb in Queer Theory; I was expanding the Queer Theory conceptualization of queering to encompass the queering of neurocognitive norms as well as gender norms––and, in the process, I was examining how socially-imposed neuronormativity and socially-imposed heteronormativity were entwined with one another, and how the queering of either of those two forms of normativity entwined with and blended into the queering of the other one.